Entries from July 2008

July 15, 2008

CAPT scores up across the board

It’s nice to see that West Hartford’s sophomores raised their scores in every category this year over last year’s performance.
Here’s the results:
MATH – 59.3 percent at goal this year compared to 56.8 last year
SCIENCE – 64.6 at goal this year compared to 63.9 last year
READING – 64 at goal this year compared to 62 last [...]

July 15, 2008

Hey mister, buy me a beer?

Years ago, long before my life turned to mowing grass and hanging curtains, I went to a cinema brewhouse where you could watch a bad movie and get soused at the same time. I dimly recall a bunch of drunken college students hooting at “Blue Lagoon” but perhaps that was at a plain old theater. [...]